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romantic vanthiyathevan
Venkat, truly fascinating. Some thoughts - VD could have married Manimekalai after marrying Kundavai. I am not sure Kundavai would have had any objections as long as she was the chief queen.The VD in reality did have more than one wife, am I corr…

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romantic vanthiyathevan
Got you Venkat, on the hot potato. Regarding talking to flares, that is actually a common strategy among great adventurists to this day to ward off fear in unknown/scary terrains. Watch Discovery Channel, the extreme adventure program. People goi…

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romantic vanthiyathevan
Yes definitely that is why i said i found her odd, in the sense that something she found in VD that she had to waste away and die for him. To me something is missing the way Kalki portrayed her and VD, it does not seem strong enough love like Siv…

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romantic vanthiyathevan
Venkat, does your Kaviri Maindhan have Poonguzhali and how does her character develop? Am curious.. :))

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romantic vanthiyathevan
Good one :)))

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romantic vanthiyathevan
I guess so, when did VD become a lady killer tho? He falls for many ladies - a lady killer is the other way around :))

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romantic vanthiyathevan
Manimekalai..in my opinion she is an odd woman too, somewhat irritating (to me). She has a huge crush on VD and ultimately dies for him. (Love that is not reciprocated is a crush). She is talented, intelligent, beautiful, i mean if not VD so what…

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THYAGA SUDAR
Kathie, do try coming down south and am sure you will enjoy driving much better. People are courteous to a fault and in turn expect courtesy, there is always enough room between cars and rarely honking or cutting people off. It does happen but no…

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romantic vanthiyathevan
Thanks Satish. I definitely disagree on Pooguzhali, seems like a classic male comment, apologies :) but you cant have the cake and eat it also, you can't ask for a strong woman and then complain about 'kudumba paangu'. But she was …

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romantic vanthiyathevan
Venkat, would love to hear what he had to say on Vanadhi, one character I love to hate :))

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romantic vanthiyathevan
He he..solved his food problem..great way to put it, I agree completely:)) Yeah possibly Kalki did envy VD for his playboy-ish ways..and perhaps Kalki did feel stifled himself with Rajaji and Gandhi around, poor guy :))

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KAVIRI MYNTHAN :: felicitation to our Venkat
Thank you, I got to see so many of you, very heart warming. Malathi

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romantic vanthiyathevan
Venkat, am not sure if Poonguzhali was a 'hot potato'. Poonguzhali is the essential high achieveing strong woman who makes men feel guilty/less brave/less achieving and that is often manifested in their desire to marry her (and therefor…

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ARR
Sampath, first of all that was a general statement and not against any individual, my apologies if I hurt anyone. The fact that hero worship is a cultural disease in India particularly (to a lesser extent in other countries/world) has been pointed o…

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ARR
Satish, i have already said that i have concluded, due to lack of time. I am not insulting anyone, and refuse to take your feedback in that regard. Hero worship is not paal abhisegam etc...in simple terms it is adulation of the person over the a…

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ARR
I didn't get Satish's response for some reason. Yes I think the same way as Rahul thinks on Ph Ds with due respect to the people who work for them, majority just get it like anyone gets any other degree. I see more with innovation/reusab…

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Blogsite on sculpture
Truly amazing, the narasimha avatara and sri krishna under tree are just wonderful, lovely. and seems well preserved temple also. Thank you.

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tobacco
Hi Venkat, tobacco is still very sacred to native americans and is used as incense even in their rituals. It was to my astonishment to attend a sacred ritual with 'beedi' like incense only to be informed that it was a sacred plant to them!…

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KAVIRI MYNTHAN :: falicitation to our Venkat
Venkat, Hearty congratulations!!

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Casting
Absolutely..RKN writes of it in his My Days, when flamboyant Dev Anand walked into his home in Mysore and gave him a blank cheque in return for story rights of Guide. RKN refused saying his only request was that the story be made as is with no alter…

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Udanx, let me answer shortly today, am in a hurry to work my apologies. First of all I'd like to read technical points in your friend's site (and there are several other sites too devoted more to music) - I took on the project of compiling…

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ARR
Udanx, ok, let us get one point clear. IR himself has admitted to be overcommitted and therefore being less creative. It is not something anyone who dislikes him has made up. He went as far to say he wished he never came to movies, a remark that irk…

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THYAGA SUDAR
Dear Dr Sri, do you know Dr Cherian? He was a close friend of my grandfather (none of us know him either but my grandfather did and they parted ways before we were born). Malathi

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ARR
Dear Satish, yes definitea..we can copy our own stuff..aana copy pannittu we cannot score on numbers. So 12 songs in Sindhu Bhairavi versus MSV did 3 songs only endraal enna artham? Appuram creativity is a core value endru solli vittu 10 songs or…

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THYAGA SUDAR
Very moving story, thank you.

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தின்னைத்தூங்கி தடிராமன்
Very nice name, I will remember, thank you :) who is the author of this book?

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ARR
Dear Dr Sri, SPB did not say anything derogatory on IR - Gangai Amaran was present in the program and he said that GA's talent was unique it its own way and largely overshadowed by his bigger celebrity brother. I like any song as long as it …

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Cometh the moment cometh the man
Udanx, everyone deserves a right to their opinion. This is exactly what I talked about what hero worship does is leading to self righteousness. If IRR wanted to be purely classical genius he should not have chosen film music as his centre, if he doe…

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Cometh the moment cometh the man
Dear Kathie, no problem with rambling at all, from my side:) And especially on the joys of ritual and celebration and all those things which I grew up with. Just not sure where to begin. As you probably know there is no shortages of images/myths/rit…

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Cometh the moment cometh the man
Kathie, of course we all have people who are our heroes and favorites, I didn't mean that way. Our minds and hearts regardless have to be open to the fact that there is never really 'one' person who is above all, in anything. And p…

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